{"id":1696,"date":"2008-11-26T15:49:17","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T14:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2008\/11\/26\/ed_stourton_anti-pc_gone_mad"},"modified":"2025-10-09T17:53:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T16:53:30","slug":"ed_stourton_anti-pc_gone_mad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2008\/11\/26\/ed_stourton_anti-pc_gone_mad","title":{"rendered":"Ed Stourton: Anti-PC gone mad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk\/e\/cm?t=blogistan-21&#038;o=2&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0340954868&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" align=\"right\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nEdward Stourton (of BBC Radio 4) in the Catholic Herald, on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicherald.co.uk\/features\/f0000337.shtml\">myths about &quot;political correctness<\/a>&quot; commonly parroted in the British media, such as the &quot;Winterval&quot; event which supposedly replaced Christmas in Birmingham (the full story on which is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2006\/dec\/08\/religion.communities\">here<\/a>), and similar claims that Christmas is played down to avoid offending Muslims.  You can buy the book from the link on the right (recommended if you&#39;re in the UK or Europe; it might be cheaper in the USA to buy from amazon.com).  (Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iengage.org.uk\/component\/content\/article\/1-news\/147-political-correctness-lies-are-mad-and-dangerous\">Engage<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edward Stourton (of BBC Radio 4) in the Catholic Herald, on myths about &quot;political correctness&quot; commonly parroted in the British media, such as the &quot;Winterval&quot; event which supposedly replaced Christmas in Birmingham (the full&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[682],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political_correctness"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-rm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41726,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696\/revisions\/41726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}